Environmental noise monitoring survey software
An environmental noise survey combines unattended loggers left at receivers for a week or more with attended measurements, where the acoustic consultant stands at the boundary and notes exactly what was audible. The attended notes are what allow a logger trace to be interpreted — which peak was the plant, which was a passing truck, which was a dog. They are also the part most likely to end up on scrap paper.
Built for acoustic consultants running teams of roughly 3–50 inspectors.
Sample Acoustic report
An illustrative excerpt. The site, readings and findings are fictional; the layout is yours to set.
Acoustic report
Attended measurements — Night period
- Project
- Concrete batching plant, Lot 9 (fictional)
- Date
- 18 June 2026, 22:00–23:30
- Instrument
- Class 1 sound level meter, calibrated before and after
| Location | Measured / sources noted | Status |
|---|---|---|
| R1 Nearest residence | LAeq 15 min 41 dB; plant hum audible, intermittent traffic | Status: Plant audible |
| R2 Rural dwelling | LAeq 15 min 34 dB; insects dominant, plant inaudible | Status: Inaudible |
| B1 Site boundary | LAeq 15 min 52 dB; loader reversing alarm | Status: Tonal |
Fields captured on site
Your firm builds the form in-app, so these are a starting point rather than a fixed schema. Every field is captured on the device, with or without signal, and lands in the acoustic report where your template puts it.
Per logger deployment
- Logger serial and location
- Microphone height and windshield
- Deployment and retrieval times
- Calibration drift
- Photo of set-up
Per attended measurement
- Location
- Start time and duration
- Measured levels
- Sources audible and their character
- Wind speed and direction
Standards the report works to
- AS 1055Acoustics — Description and measurement of environmental noise
- Measurement procedure and the descriptors the report uses.
- NSW Noise Policy for Industry (2017)Noise Policy for Industry
- Assessment approach and modifying factors for projects in New South Wales.
Load the standards you hold into your reference library and the drafted prose is written against them rather than against a general model.
How the acoustic report gets built
Capture it once, offline
Your firm builds the noise monitoring survey form in-app — 25 field types, nesting repeatable groups, compound AND/OR visibility rules, reusable modules and calculated fields. Field capture works with no signal: jobs, forms, photos, notes and audio all queue in an idempotent outbox that only clears once the server confirms receipt.
Link it to your sample locations
Enter sample locations once, as a register. Every one of your samples, bores and monitoring rounds then points at a stored row rather than a name somebody typed — and the links survive a disconnected device.
Render your own template
The acoustic report renders into the Word template you already use — your letterhead, your section order, your clause library — with conditionals, loops over repeats, composable sub-templates and photo grids.
Reviewed before it leaves
You write the review framework: a checklist of what a acoustic report must contain, plus the prose standards you would mark a junior against. Link it to a report template and it runs every time that template renders. Each finding comes back graded info, minor or major, quoting the sentence at fault, and a person accepts or dismisses every one.
Because the structured submission behind the report is held too, the review is a comparison rather than a proofread: The report says every bore was sampled to three metres; the form has BH07 refused at 1.2 m.
Checks a environmental framework usually carries
- Every exceedance in the results tables is discussed in the assessment text
- The guideline values cited match the land use actually being assessed
- No sample or bore ID appears in the prose that is absent from the data
- Data gaps, refusals and deviations from the sampling plan are stated as limitations
Questions
- Can attended notes be linked to a logger location?
- Receivers are a register, so loggers and attended measurements both point at the same receiver and appear together in the report.
- Can I record a voice note instead of typing at night?
- Audio recording works offline on the device and can be transcribed later.
- Does it analyse logger data?
- No. Logger data is analysed in your acoustic software; this captures the fieldwork and produces the report around your results.
What this is not
Worth knowing before you book a demo, so neither of us wastes the half hour.
- Not field-service dispatch. No timesheets, no parts, no inventory. Scheduling exists to get an inspector to a site.
- No signature capture. If your deliverable has to carry a signed sign-off on the artefact itself, this is not the tool yet.
- Field capture is what works offline — jobs, forms, photos, notes and audio. Reports, chat, scheduling and the inbox need a connection.
- No client portal. Reports go out as a file or a password-protected link.
Other environmental work we cover
- Environmental license compliance roundsLicense condition checklist
- Erosion and sediment auditsESC compliance report
- Groundwater monitoring roundsMonitoring event report
- Hazardous materials surveysHazmat register
- Illegal dumping investigationsDumping incident report
- Landfill cell inspectionsCell condition report
- Landfill gas monitoringGas monitoring report
- Litter auditsLitter count report
Other disciplines
Rebuild your acoustic report in SurveyThanks
Bring the Word template you already send clients. If you are coming off another field-forms tool, a filled report can be uploaded, read field by field, and re-rendered into your template.